Once online entries were closed this morning, there are 18 colts & geldings and two fillies entered in the 97th edition of the $1 million Hambletonian to be raced Saturday, Aug. 6 at Meadowlands Racetrack.
In the second start of his sophomore campaign, freshman Breeders Crown champion Rebuff seized the lead up the backside and held firm on the point to complete a stakes-record 1:49.4 mile which also equaled the track record for three-year-old trotting colts in the first of two $125,000 divisions of the Stanley Dancer Memorial at the Meadowlands on Saturday (July 16).
A total of nearly 30 Hambletonian or Hambletonian Oaks hopefuls will be in action Saturday (July 9) at Vernon Downs when the upstate New York oval hosts Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial stakes for three-year-old male and three-year-old female trotters.
The 2022 Empire Breeders Classics (EBC) were brought to you by the letter J as Joviality S and Justice captured the EBC races at Vernon Downs on Friday (June 17).